We demonstrate a system for tracking and analyzing moods of bloggers worldwide, as reflected in the largest blogging community, LiveJournal. Our system collects thousands of blog posts every hour, performs various analyses on the posts and presents the results graphically. Exploring the Blogspace From the point of view of information access, the blogspace offers many natural opportunities beyon...

The present study investigated Mood Dependent Memory for selfgenerated words using a Musical mood induction procedure. 75 participants (25 males, 50 females) took part in this study. Testing took place over two sessions, two days apart. During the first session participants were induced into a positive or negative mood before generating a list of 16 words in a word-association task. Two days la...

This study critically evaluated the Emotional Intelligence (EI) construct (the ability to perceive, understand, and manage emotions), as measured by the Multi-factor Emotional Intelligence Scale (MEIS in press). We administered the MEIS to Australian undergraduates along with a battery of IQ, personality, and other theoretically relevant criterion measures, including life satisfaction and relat...

An original questionnaire, the Foods and Moods Inventory (FMI) was used to investigate appetite for sweets and chocolate and its relationship to dysphoric mood. The FMI was administered to a group of subjects with an identified interest in chocolate (chocolate group, N = 73), a comparison sample (comparison group, N = 172), and a sample of former alcoholics (N = 22). Those who reported "self-me...

We examined the impact o f happy and sad moods on efficacy judgments concerning a variety o f activities. The mood was induced by having hypnotized subjects recall and revive their feelings about a romantic success or failure. Changes in efficacy that these memories induced were not restricted to the romantic domain but were also seen on interpersonal, athletic, and other activities remote f ro...

In this paper I present the body of work that I have been developing since 2005: Modes for Urban Moods -Space Dress, Yuga, and Lags. An ongoing project, which aims to evolve through time and in different urban spaces, this suite of wearable mechanisms are intended to help coping with our social sphere in a rather whimsy fashion. Being more or less technological, each of the garments and accesso...

We tested the impact of mood on the debugging performance of programmers. Four movie clips were used to induce programmer’s mood. In the test, 72 programmers watched both a neutral video clip and one of the four mood evoking video clips and after each of these they took a debugging test. Examination of the test results revealed an almost significant effect for the arousal mood-dimension on both...

mood is, in general, a meaning concept that indicates the speaker’s point of view about a proposition. there are different modal elements in each language to embody a mood; in other words, different languages have variety of methods to express modal concepts. using verbal moods is one of these methods. verbal mood represents the morphology of a verb and can hence be considered as a grammatical ...